Authorities found the body of Summer Inman, 25, on Tuesday night, after her mother-in-law -
charged in her disappearance - told authorities where to look.

The body was inside a buried septic tank behind Faith Tabernacle Church, along Rt.33 near
Nelsonville. There was a lid atop the tank.

Athens County Coroner Harold C. Thompson III said today that preliminary autopsy results show
that Summer Inman was strangled. A plastic tie that ratchets shut, similar to "quick handcuffs"
used by police, was found around her neck. A plastic tie also was used to cinch her wrists together
behind her back, Thompson said.

"She had some minor abrasions, cuts on her arms and so forth. There were no other signs of major
trauma, no stab wounds or anything like that," the coroner said.

The abomination of someone putting her granddaughter's body into the filth and waste of a septic
tank floored Chambers.

"Summer has never ever been a problem, just a nice girl. She always went to church - which
didn't seem to help much. God forgot where she was."

Summer's estranged husband, William A. Inman II, and his parents, William A. and Sandra K.
Inman, appeared yesterday before Hocking County Common Pleas Judge Thomas H. Gerken, who set their
bonds at $1 million each.

Each is charged with one count of kidnapping, a first-degree felony, and one count of abduction,
a third-degree felony.

Additional charges are expected, said Hocking County Prosecutor Laina Fetherolf.

Summer Inman disappeared March 22 outside a Logan bank where she was working with a night
cleaning crew. Witnesses said she was forced into a car by two men wearing black clothing, and that
a blond woman had been driving the car.

A search warrant released yesterday shows that at least one person tried to intervene and help
Summer. One of the people who tried to save her, the warrant says, was hit with pepper spray by the
woman driving the car.

The Rev. King Kelly of Faith Tabernacle Church said William and Sandra Inman were familiar with
every inch of his church and its grounds. They were married at the church, and the elder Inman
helped build two church additions, he said.

They moved temporarily to Florida about eight years ago, but William Inman still attended
services when he returned from time to time.

"It's a shock, a shock to everyone," Kelly said of the discovery of Summer's body in the septic
tank on church grounds.

Last night was to be dedicated to prayers for both Summer, her husband and his parents, said
Kelly, 75, who has served as pastor of the church for 40 years.

"Once a person steps outside of God's law, and man's law, we can pray all they want. But they
still have to face the problem," he said.

Sandra Inman, 46, appeared distraught as she walked into the courtroom yesterday afternoon and
met the eyes of her daughter-in-law's family. She mouthed the words, "I'm so sorry."

With two court-appointed lawyers at her side, she entered a plea of not guilty.

William A. Inman, 47, and their son, William A. Inman II, 26, appeared later, in separate
arraignments. Gerken appointed lawyers to represent the men and entered not-guilty pleas on their
behalf.

The elder Inman said he was self-employed in construction. His son sometimes works with him.
Sandra Inman said she was a housewife who had never worked outside the home.

Michael and Deborah Cook, Summer's parents, and other relatives left the courtroom quickly
afterward. Her parents did not wish to speak with reporters, a relative at their Logan home said
yesterday.

Their daughter's body was found outside the little country church about 8:50 p.m. Tuesday, after
investigators used screwdrivers to pry off the septic-tank cover.

That was after Sandra Inman spoke with her attorney at the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail in
Nelsonville and provided information about where her daughter-in-law's body could be found, Logan
Police Chief Aaron Miller said.

Fetherolf confirmed that authorities made a plea deal with Sandra Inman in exchange for the
information, but she wouldn't say more about the deal.

Summer Inman was in the middle of a contentious divorce with her husband when she
disappeared.

"I never liked him," her grandmother said of William Inman II, whom her granddaughter married in
2004.

Both Inman men were controlling husbands who ordered around Summer and Sandra Inman, Summer's
grandmother said.

Summer did not confide a lot of that to her family until after she left her husband and the
house they shared with her in-laws in Vinton County.

Her grandmother said that Summer returned to her parents' home in Logan to live with their three
children last June, when she filed for divorce. The children are all 5 or younger and are staying
with Summer's parents.

In January, the Inmans and their son also left Vinton County, moving to a house in Akron. The
elder Inman told the judge at his arraignment that it is a house he's been remodeling for a
friend.

Chief Miller said yesterday that authorities found "significant evidence" at the Akron house. A
warrant for a search of that house shows authorities took knives, guns, two black hoodies,
computers and other items from it.

The search warrant also states that William Inman II and his father told authorities they
couldn't have been near Logan when Summer disappeared because they had been traveling to Cleveland
that night and their car had broken down on the interstate.

But, the warrant says, authorities tracked Inman II's cellphone calls, which showed he was in
Logan when she disappeared. They also showed he was at the Akron home the next day.

Several of Summer's friends were in court yesterday and held up signs afterward that read
"Justice for Summer."

"Her husband told her what to do, when to do it," said friend Jessica Bailey, 25. "He was very
controlling, very possessive."

Summer's boyfriend, Adam D. Peters, also was in court, wiping tears from his eyes at one
point.

Her grandmother said they hadn't dated long, but she said she liked Peters and that he was good
with the children.